03430cam a2200313 4500 513531164 TxAuBib 20210720120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062872258 0062872257 B079L5DDB4 Amazon 51a81e75-1f33-4dd3-a84e-f650e19f81dd OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3801700 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Vance, J. D. Hillbilly Elegy [Libby] : A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Harper Paperbacks, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 925kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 610kB. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><strong>THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO</strong></p> <p><strong>"You will not read a more important book about America this year.</strong><strong>"—The Economist</strong></p> <p><strong>"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal</strong></p> <p><strong>"Essential reading."—David Brooks,</strong> <strong>New York Times</strong></p> <p>Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.</p> <p>The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.</p> <p>A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-09-20 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=51a81e75-1f33-4dd3-a84e-f650e19f81dd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=51a81e75-1f33-4dd3-a84e-f650e19f81dd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=51a81e75-1f33-4dd3-a84e-f650e19f81dd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)